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The Desert Fringe Theatre and Cultural Arts Festival will present three days of performances, music, and workshops April 17-19, 2026, across multiple venues in 29 Palms, CA, featuring artists from Los Angeles, San Diego, Arizona, and beyond.

ROSENFELD’S ATTRACTIONS premiered March 27–29 at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), presented by seniors from the School of Drama.

Karen Mason marked her birthday with a concert at Birdland Jazz Club on Monday evening, performing a program of songs and stories in front of a live audience.

The October Project Poetry Contest, co-founded by poet Julie Flanders, vocalist Marina Belica, and composer Emil Adler, opens April 1 and closes April 30, with judges including Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco.

You can now get a first look at Bent Through Glass, a new play written and performed by Alex Koltchak, chronicling a father’s loss of his daughter by suicide, now at The 30th Street Theater.

The world premiere of Camping by Victoria Lynne Barclay, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, will be presented at HERE Arts Center in New York, running June 13 through July 11.

Award-winning performer Glenn Close will be honored with a Hand & Footprint Ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, May 1, 2026, as part of the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Viral vocalist Rosie Webber will make her New York City debut at The Green Room 42 on July 30, 2026, in The Show That Got Away, a Judy Garland tribute written and directed by Emmy nominee Danny Salles.

The Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio will present MAMMA MIA! for six performances April 24 through May 3, featuring local cast members and Broadway actor Jamie Karen.

Roy Thomson Hall will present Simple Too: An Evening With Yotam Ottolenghi on October 4, 2026, celebrating his forthcoming cookbook and the follow-up to his bestselling Ottolenghi Simple.

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Christine Baranski will be honored with Shakespeare Theatre Company's inaugural Michael Kahn Lifetime Achievement Award.

Broadway in Portland will host the city's first Career Day at Keller Auditorium.

As Dionne Warwick took the stage at Groton Hill Music Center in Groton recently, before she had sung a single word, she was met by a rousing standing ovation.

Come From Away is based on a true story of when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland played host to the world.

For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation.

When it comes to the arts, there are a lot of things in DC that go either unnoticed or get lost in the shuffle.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and The Juilliard School have reached a tentative agreement concluding collective bargaining negotiations with production staff who support the school’s performances.

What I’m Here For (Danish title Flora) is a co-production between internationally acclaimed companies Vanishing Point (Scotland) and Teater Katapult (Denmark).

You can now get a first look at photos and videos of The Goodman’s Centennial Season revival of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—helmed by Director Chuck Smith.

When the original production of Chicago opened on Broadway in 1975, its subtitle read “A Musical Vaudeville.

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, the continuation of Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, will return for one last outing this summer with a four-part event.

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Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is continuing its 47th season A Night With Janis Joplin, created and written by Randy Johnson, and starring Tony nominee Mary Bridget Davies in her portrayal of Janis Joplin.